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Religious Identity in an Early Reformation Community: Augsburg, 1517 to 1555
Series: - Studies in Central European Histories, Volume: 45
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Debate over the usefulness of the confessionalization paradigm for understanding how Europeans responded to religious differences resulting from the Reformation has obscured people's experiences during the early years of reform. Based on interrogations recorded in Augsburg, Germany, in the first half of the sixteenth century, the compelling portraits of individual believers presented in this book provide a rare insight into the lives of ordinary people during one of the most controversial periods in religious history. Speaking about their faith and encounters with others in their own words, they rephrase the debate in terms of contemporary experiences. The resulting study challenges previous assumptions about the importance of belief in constructing religious identities and reveals the potential for accommodation amidst conflict.
Michele Zelinsky Hanson, Ph.D. (2000) in History, University of Pennsylvania, is Assistant Professor of History at La Salle University.
"Zelinsky [gelingt] eine umfassende Darstellung und Deutung der Entwicklung religiöser Identitäten und deren Auswirkungen auf soziale Beziehungen...Zelinskys Studie überzeugt schliesslich auch durch eine anspruchsvolle und dennoch erfreulich unaufgeregte sprachliche Gestaltung." Natalie Krentz, in Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung, vol. 38 (2011) no. 3, pp. 520-522.
Acknowledgments
A Note on Names, Translations and Quotations
Introduction
1. Ambiguous Identities
2. Religious Tensions in the 1520s
Trespassing
Blasphemy
3. Anabaptists: A Special Case?
Degrees of Association
Social Networks
Trouble with the Law
4. Magisterial Reform and Religious Deviance
5. Making the Bi-Confessional City: Political Encounters
Censorship of Printing
Critical Speeches
6. Making the Bi-Confessional City: Religious Encounters
Attacks on the Clergy
Religious Deviance
Miscellaneous
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
A Note on Names, Translations and Quotations
Introduction
1. Ambiguous Identities
2. Religious Tensions in the 1520s
Trespassing
Blasphemy
3. Anabaptists: A Special Case?
Degrees of Association
Social Networks
Trouble with the Law
4. Magisterial Reform and Religious Deviance
5. Making the Bi-Confessional City: Political Encounters
Censorship of Printing
Critical Speeches
6. Making the Bi-Confessional City: Religious Encounters
Attacks on the Clergy
Religious Deviance
Miscellaneous
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
All those interested in the history of the Reformation, the history of early modern Germany, religious history, the history of Anabaptism, legal historians, as well as those interested in the history of religious conflict, toleration and identity formation.